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Gromphadorhina portentosa (Blaberidae) Mortality/Longevity: Likely predators include large spiders, tenrecs, and birds. When disturbed, both sexes sound an alarm hiss to startle predators. Can live up to 5 years. **Demonstration animal
He stuck a plastic cockroach in her toothbrush holder.
We were not home when she discovered it but she told us it scared the crap out of her.
;-D
Cockroach nymph. Jan found it in the kitchen, about 3mm long. It's now hiding somewhere in my keyboard so I have an excuse for typos :-))) Cute?
Unidentified cockroach. Selangor, Malaysia.
More cool roaches of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/10/cockroaches-are-cool.html
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart Tasmania. This was found under a fallen log in the dry sclerophyll forest.
Watch the speed that this wasp drags the paralysed cockroach through the Banksia serrata stand.
I'm disappointed at the loss of quality from the original this is. The stills are on
Roach infestation in a restaurant. Image depicts a cockroach sitting on a restaurant counter. Caution tape is superimposed with the words "Infestation." This is a concept image based on a pest control theme. Useful for highlighting issues of pest control in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
If licensing for your website - please link the image credit to www.cockroachfacts.com/ - thank you!
These particular creatures have become so used to being handled that they very rarely hiss now! Not a great fan of creatures like these, but I was asked to take some pictures when a local animal centre brought some specimens to a local nursery school.
I thought it was a beetle when I first saw it, even after I have photographed it. Only when viewing the images on a big screen that I realized it was more like a cockroach. Just look at the dark armored back. How cool is that? Gotta be the coolest cockroach I have ever seen! Found it at night in Gunung Gading Park, Sarawak, Borneo.
Catara rugosicollis
Night macro: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/05/night-macro.html
I have a problem in my house, so..if the things around us gives new ideas....
cockroach ring...i am sorry but it's very difficult to get a good picture.
The body of the 'animal' ring oscillates and the wings moves.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda (insects, arachnids, and crustaceans)
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea (cockroaches and the termites)
Family: Blaberidae (giant cockroaches)
GENUS/SPECIES: Blaberus giganteus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: They have three pairs of legs, and two pairs of wings, the forewings being light brown in colour. Largest neotropical cockroach by weight. A giant cockroach has a flattened, oval body, about 9 cm (3.5 inches) long and 4 cm (1.5 inches) wide. Females are slightly larger than males. They commonly run along the ground, although the adults have wings that are rarely if ever used for flight. They have long, very slender antennae and two sensory organs, called cerci, at the tip of the abdomen.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Central and South America. They prefer dark, damp locations such as caves, rock crevices, tree hollows, and spaces under loose tree bark.
DIET IN THE WILD: Cockroaches are omnivores and detritivores. Common diet includes bat guano, rotting wood, fruit, seeds, decomposing vegetation, dead insects, and other animals. They help recycle decaying matter on the ground into useful nutrients for plants.
MORTALITY/LONGEVITY: They can live about 20 months as adults.
REPRODUCTION: Females emit a pheromone that induces males to mate. Male courtship rituals include raising wings at right angles to abdomen and making trembling movements with abdomen. After mating, the female B. giganteus will be pregnant for life producing eggs which turn into nymphs which later become adults.
CONSERVATION: IUCN: Not Listed; CITES: Not Listed
Cockroaches dates back over 200-300 million years, and are very adaptable and resilient animals.
REMARKS: The leg bristles and antennae are used for seeing and feeling, in their dark habitat, while their flat bodies enable them to hide in crevices and underneath rocks. Cockroaches do not have lungs to breathe, but instead they take air in through spiracles, which are tiny holes on the sides of their bodies, and are used to send oxygen to other parts of the body. This allows the cockroach to survive for a period of time without its head, until it dies of infection, starvation or dehydration. When threatened, the giant cockroach is able to produce a foul smell to ward off predators.
Location: Rainforest Costa Rica CR04
Costa Rica CR04
References:
Toronto Zoo www.torontozoo.com/ExploretheZoo/AnimalDetails.asp?pg=445
Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/pages/1075061/details
Sreng, L. 1993. Cockroach Mating Behaviours, Sex-Pheromones, and Abdominal Glands (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae). Journal of Insect Behaviour. 6: 715-735.
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10-16-14, 03-09-15
Slow cockroach crawls across the floor... Chez grabs a Lonely Planet to smash it and raises it over her head.
The Lonely Planet cuts it in two as the backend flies into the air then slides down Chez's arm... she screams and flees the room.
This is the picture I took of the back half of the roach as it kicked furiously, understandably as it's totally detached from the front. Half hour later and it's still kicking.... Chez has returned to the room.
Everyone needs one of these for a pet.... maybe even two or three! It's a Madagascar hissing cockroach, yes, they really hiss... this one hissed at me, hissed at my wife, hissed at my kids..... didn't hiss at the lady holding him though, never hiss at the one who feeds you!
I saw a little bug curled up like a dried leaf in a corner and when I shifted the roach, there were at least 50 nymphs nestled under the bug.
Classification: Animal/Insect/Blattodea/Blaberidae
Identity: Pseudophoraspis nebulosa (Dried Leaf Cockroach)
Photographed in Singapore Botanical Gardens